Hasbro Pulse | HeroQuest: The Quest Is Calling 

Ordered it already

And thats why HeroQuest is the best game ever.

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No Broadsword though.

I kind of laughed at the "Northern Dread Wastes". It's like let's take Warhammer lore but change one word so we don't get sued, and call it a day.

My only complaint is the Abominations don't look nowhere near as good as the Chaos Orcs..the fish headed looking thing is so outta place imo

Where was Sigmar mentioned?

@@adamsonnet i think thats the name of the barbarian!

Nice! Living the dream for those of us that compulsively check thrift stores for rare gems like that. Congratulations.

That’s a fair call. Thanks for explaining. I do hope to pick this up one day!!

FYI, It's now available in NZ, AUS and the UK.

They also lowred shipping rates to Canada

Hasbro -> Uncle -> You, should be fine. Just don't tell anyone ;)

I've been doing my part by creating videos on the new stuff for about a month now, even though I'm a smaller channel than most

If you root around on RU-vid you can find it.

Agreed, they really need to do a budget edition if this hits retail so the average family can afford it. What we have right now looks like a luxury edition. The original edition didn't use minatures for the funature & doors like this one does & instead used cardboard items likely to reduce production cost. 35 minatures with some cardboard cost drastically less to produce then 71 full minatures like in this edition & I think they need to consider this angle again for a new retail edition so the game can sell to family's while still turning a profit. As for myself, I'm already hooked on the original so paying for a luxury edition doesn't bother me but to the average consumer $100 is a little steep for a game you don't know if your going to like it or not.

Oh, there are more expansions than just the Elf Quest Pack (also known as Mage of the Mirror) and the Barbarian Quest Pack (also known as The Frozen Horror). There's also Against the Ogre Horde and the Wizards of Morcar. It would have been a bit much to release six expansion packs (or seven, if you include the Adventure Design Kit) right away. If enough people buy HeroQuest, and the Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witch Lord expansions when there is a general release, I'm sure they'll follow it up with the other four expansions too.

@@paulpenna5615 Those were the (excellent) UK expansions I believe, but yes, I very much hope this is the case!

@@yodaflyz That may have been the case in the 1980s but these days it's actually much cheaper to churn out some plastic than it is to produce high quality prints on a decent paper stock.

Finally? Um, for the price point you're probably only a few bucks short of getting the base set (right now) from ebay, so what's holding you up?

@@disruptive_innovator ebay ripped me off so I'm not into them. But I've been waiting for this for awhile. I used to have the base game but you know had to down size.

​@@warface4881 I can understand, ebay can be dicey. I too am considering pulling the trigger on this one, it looks amazing!

I think the naysayers are hilarious. As I’m writing this they only need another 185k and the backer hasn’t been live for 12 hours. This thing is getting made. People can sneer at it all they want. I cannot wait for this. Even if it was an exact replica of the original it would be worth it to me. But as you can see it’s going to have a lot more and it won’t be exactly the same as before.

@@gimminykricket9677 dude it's going to be so epic! When I was in the CORPS we played my set a few times but we had this D&D campaign that took much of our free time (and they never gave us much free time) now I got kids and a captive audience so if they want their tablets their gonna have to play HEROQUEST with dad.

Legal issues, I think, with Games Workshop.

It's now retail, base game at least.

I always thought it was weird that Games Workshop wouldn't try to make their own version to sell. I would instantly try to buy that.

It's now available retail.

Because its a $150 board game that probably won't do well at retail?? The whole idea is the guarantee a certain amount of units will sell in order to justify the cost of producing the game. Duh.

Distribution rights issues. Outside the US it's a mess, at least from a Hasbro/Milton-Bradley perspective. A shame Games Workshop can't get something similar together.

well fuck me and the rest of europe i guess

@@philipptomic6310 I'm in Australia so I'm *beaming.* Have Heroquest line supermarket shelves for new kids and make it a staple alongside monopoly and whatnot? Nope!

@@tacky4237 aye im technically austrian and i am displeased that we will probably have to wait till 2022 for a world wide release

@@philipptomic6310 Austrian? I'm Australian, what a coincidence our countries sound so similar. But yeah I'm still mad they didn't make this game a household boardgame title like monopoly connect 4 mouse trap etc.

@@tacky4237 aye

As I said earlier in these comments - That’s for legal reasons. Hasbro only owns the rights to HeroQuest in the North American market. They don’t own the rights to the franchise in the UK. Nor do the own any of the Games Workshop IP like Fimirs or Chaos Warriors, which is why those units had to be changed. There is nothing Hasbro can do about that, at least currently. Welcome to the wonderful world of Intellectual Property, Copyright & Trademark law.....

Cheers @n00bfish. That makes perfect sense. Sucks but that’s that.

Abolish the TRIPPS already.

It is a fairly safe backing as you know Hasbro isn't going to run with the cash and already has the manufacturing logistics down pat. To be frank this is the absolutely easiest way to ensure tooling is covered and gauge demand. They also avoid laying out their own cash in advance. It is smart business.

The new game is identical to the old one except for the sculpts due to IP rights reasons.

I understand somewhat agree with this statement. My guess is (somehow) Hasbro isn't convinced this product has legs so we end up with crowdfunding to gauge the market. So, I guess vote with your wallet based on how you feel. Personally, I'm leaning toward funding this, if we get some more details.

@@disruptive_innovator While i can see that, there is really no excuse when they look at prices of the original game. The "D&D: Adventure Begins" is a mockery of HeroQuest, aimed at 6 year olds, while HeorQuest wil span the ages with unlimited play hours... or until the board wears out and you have to replace it like Axis & Allies. Not to mention the minis. People would buy this off the shelf for the minis alone. Creatures, terrain all 3D. People would buy this game just to get the minis at $1 each. HeroQuest is a direct competitor and the progenitor of games like: Gloomhaven, Descent/Descent 2: Journeys in th Dark. The amount of money people put into those games is ridiculous and HASBRO would be doing a disservice to its shareholders to not consider having the ability to have the number 1 game sold out at Christmas 2021 by making this a retail item rather than a limited edition one. I mean just the fact this is limited to US/Canada is hurting their bottom line when at least 50% of the market for this game is in Europe and South America combined! Retail version wouldn't even have all the little bonus things from this crowd-funding campaign. As in the past the board game would lead way to video games, maybe mobile apps, with DLC or such, but only after people get a chance to play the tabletop version to get hooked on the brand name. HASBRO could have, with HeroQuest, the thing that makes more money consistently, with less controversy than D&D. HQ could even have a tournament scene like Games Workshop does with its games such as 40k, or WotC does with MtG. Not trying to put the base game and the 2 expansion packs on retail shelves is just a waste of effort after people have spent so much time with each other in 2020 and might have gotten a new taste for board games. In less than 12 hours , they have already had 750k of 1 million dollars pledged to this thing, If that doesn't show legs, then i don't know what will. Was that over the top for a sales pitch? :thinking:

@@Shadzar Wow, well said, I wish you were in charge of this project! I'm very much in agreement that Hasbro could make stupid amounts of money if they'd go to full retail scale. They seem to be WAY to risk adverse.

Shadzar I have to agree with you. I’m sure they had concerns on how it would compete against modern games, but the shipping costs of the crowdfunding model alone are going to lower sales. Mass marketed would have made them insane money. I hope they go that route in the future if it proves successful.

I agree with @disruptive_innovator that Hasbro is new to this market and wants to know the 'pulse' of how well Heroequest could be for them. Also, I think of it this way. When Tesla was releasing its first electric vehicle, it started with a sports car. Get early adopters, enthusiasts, the economically able to get it up and running. Then they moved on to a range of other models. Maybe Harbro's Walmart etc. version will have cardboard standees instead of minis (like Legends of Andor) and decor similar to the original game. This would fetch a much better price point. They could still have the Heroic/Mythic edition for those that want an upgraded edition. If they came out with standees first, the community wouldn't have been as supportive of the effort. At the time of this post, it has been just less than 24 hours and it has already past the $1M funding mark. I hope there is enough enthusiasm that they will produce all original expansions as well as new ones (Hasbro, I hope you are reading :).

Congrats, you're lucky to have those. This is way cheaper option than ebay for those of us who don't already have it and have been interested.

@@technosaurusarcanex3247 I get that. But if you break a piece or lose a part, then what? Pay $100 to get another copy?

@@banesbox I use glue on my old copy when that happens. I also don't lend it out just to avoid losing vintage prices.